Springfield Cardinals pitcher Zach Petrick is finishing the season in Double-A just 14 months after not getting drafted by a big-league organization. News-Leader file photo

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Talk about the real world tugging at the back of your jersey. Zach Petrick all but had the resume on standby, the coat and tie, too.

And yet only 14 months after no big-league organization bothered to draft him - and having pitched his junior and senior seasons for a start-up program in the college baseball's lowest rung, NAIA - here he is finishing the season in Double-A baseball.